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This shield will make quick work of your next robotics project! We kept the ability to drive up to 4 DC motors or 2 stepper motors, but added many improvements: Instead of a L293D darlington driver, we now have the TB6612 MOSFET driver: with 1.2A per channel and 3A peak current capability. It also has much lower voltage drops across the motor so you get more torque out of your batteries, and there are built-in flyback diodes as well. Completely stackable design: 5 address-select pins means up to 32 stackable shields: that's 64 steppers or 128 DC motors! What on earth could you do with that many steppers? I have no idea but if you come up with something send us a photo because that would be a pretty glorious project. Lets check out these specs again: 2 connections for 5V 'hobby' servos connected to the Arduino's high-resolution dedicated timer - no jitter! 4 H-Bridges: TB6612 chipset provides 1.2A per bridge (3A peak) with thermal shutdown protection, internal kickback protection diodes. Can run motors on 4.5VDC to 13.5VDC. Up to 4 bi-directional DC motors with individual 8-bit speed selection (so, about 0.5% resolution) Up to 2 stepper motors (unipolar or bipolar) with single coil, double coil, interleaved or micro-stepping. Motors automatically disabled on power-up Big terminal block connectors to easily hook up wires (18-26AWG) and power Arduino reset button brought up top Polarity protected 2-pin terminal block and jumper to connect external power, for separate logic/motor supplies Tested compatible with Arduino UNO, Leonardo, ADK/Mega R3, Due, Diecimila & Duemilanove. Works with Mega/ADK R2 and earlier with 2 wire jumpers. Download the easy-to-use Arduino software library, check out the examples and you're ready to go! Comes with an assembled & tested shield, terminal block, plain header, jumper. Some soldering is required to assemble the headers on. Stacking headers not included.

Adafruit Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for Arduino v2 Kit

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[Music] hey everybody it's me lady a to the engineer to show off the Adafruit motor shield best way to control DC motors servos and steppers on my favorite microcontroller the Arduino why is it so great well we spent years researching motor controllers to create the most flexible motor shield available for Arduino at the heart of the Adafruit motor shield is this PWM driver which handles all the electronic speed control letting your Arduino manage inputs outputs and sensors we pair this with two great motor drivers each driver can do two channels of 1.2 amp up to 3 amp peak at 12 volts that means it can handle pretty much any kind of stepper or DC motor no problem we've got big filter capacitors so you don't have to worry about noise feeding back into your circuit for battery power there's a terminal block that allows you to connect an external battery pack with polarity protection ther